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MANDEM — The Woman in White (cover)MANDEM is the art name for Maize Arendsee, an art instructor and Studio Art MFA student at Florida State University, and her life-partner, Moco Steinman-Arendsee. MANDEM's artwork is described as an exercise in categorical violations, simulation, and narrative. With an academic background in classical mythology, gender studies, and critical theory, MANDEM works across media and materials (painting, assemblage/collage, film, sculpture, and book-making), intentionally destabilizing genre in terms of content and media. MANDEM's artwork has been widely exhibited in art galleries and museums, and it has been featured in over 100 publications.
Prerna Bakshi
Prerna's work has been published in Grey Sparrow Journal, Silver Birch Press, Wilderness House Literary Review and South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Literature, Arts and Culture.
Eleanor Bennett
behind ice
Eleanor was the CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of The Year. Her photography was published in British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Her art is also globally exhibited.
Carina Bissett
Tabula Rasa
Carina spends her time crafting twisted fairy tales and cross-pollinated mythic fiction. Her writing can be found at the Journal of Mythic Arts, NonBinary Review, Timeless Tales and other assorted journals and anthologies.
D G Bracey
Traffic Signals
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Sarah Brashear
Woman in White Suite
Sarah teaches writing at Lebanon Valley College. She also teaches at Harrisburg Area Community College. Her first book of poetry will be published later this year by Cawing Crow Press.
Alana I. Capria
The Siblings
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Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
Estranged Fruit
Adrian's poetry has been featured in The Yellow Chair Review, Thick With Conviction, Silver Birch Press and one of his poems was named Cultured Vultures' Top 3 Poems of the Week.
Gregg Chamberlain
A Colorful Odyssey
Gregg has about a dozen short fiction credits in sf, fantasy, horror, mystery, and children's lit genres, including NonBinary Review's Frankenstein issue and an Alphanumeric appearance in the Arabian Nights issue.
Carla Drysdale
What He Said
Carla's poetry collection Little Venus was published by Tightrope Books. Her chapbook Inheritance is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in PRISM, The Same, LIT, the Literary Review of Canada.
Deborah Guzzi
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The Nurse
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Paper Girl
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Clinton Inman
Woman in the City
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Jamal Iqbal
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David Landrum
Symphony in White
David's revised fairy tales have been published in Father Grim's Book of Stories, Arthur King of the Ages Anthology, The Fairy Tale Whisperer, Cliterature, and in Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales.
Idynne MacInnes
The Legend of Anne Catherick
Idynne has been published in Literary Mama, Quantum Fairy Tales, We'Moon 2016, and Roger Morris's Brain Waves.You can find more of her work at idynne.com.
Nick Nafpliotis
Numbers Game
Nick writes about weird crime, bizarre history, pop culture, and humorous classroom experiences on his blog, RamblingBeachCat.com. He is a television, novel, and comic book reviewer for AdventuresinPoorTaste.com.
Katie Naum
Katie is a writer in Brooklyn with a background in sustainability.
Charles Opara
Charles is a Nigerian-born writer and a speculative fiction novelist whose stories cut across an eclectic range of topics and people. In 2015, his horror fiction story "It Happened" was shortlisted for the Awele Creative Trust short story prize.
Sierra Ortega
On the Road to London
Sierra works mostly in the genres of found and experimental poetry. She's had pieces published in various regional publications and in the international politics magazines, The Interdependent and PassBlue.
Beth Overmyer
The Price of Secrets
Beth writes short and long fiction in any age category and in any genre—except for horror and erotica. She has a middle grade book, In a Pickle, out with MuseItUp Publishing.
Tatiana Ryckman
Tatiana was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of the chapbook Twenty-Something and Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press.
Stephen Spellman
Into Oblivion
Steven has written more than ten fiction novels. The only thing that comes close to being as important to him as his family is his passion for writing.
Jill Allyn Stafford
Not How Others See Us
Jill is a collage and mixed media artist. In addition to her art, Jill is a legal assistant, serves on the board of directors of a Sacramento children's literacy non-profit (916 INK), and is an avid do-gooder.
Deborah Walker
Glory Be to the Fake Somebody
Deborah grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children.
Jessica Walsh
In Pursuit of Ugly Women
Jessica's first full-length collection, How to Break My Neck, comes out in December from ELJ. She is a poet and professor at a community college in suburban Chicago.


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State health insurance law may create crisis for providers
A new health insurance law in Massachusetts could create a "financial crisis" for many healthcare providers, including nursing homes, according to an analysis in the Boston Globe.Under the law, all state residents must sign up for an insurance plan by July 1 or face potential penalties, including the loss of their personal state income tax exemption. Employers that offer coverage usually agree to pay a portion of the premiums.
Prior to the law, many employees at small healthcare providers did not enroll in employer-sponsored coverage because they considered it unaffordable. Some of these providers, including many of the state's nursing homes, say their healthcare costs are increasing substantially as more workers enroll in the employer-sponsored health plans to comply with the new law. Providers are then unable to offset the additional cost increases "because their revenue is largely dependent on fixed federal and state reimbursements," the Globe reports.


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Be an Example in Conduct- Kelley Everett
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in the word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12
The 2nd thing mentioned is conduct, why conduct? If you are a believer in Jesus Christ your life should confirm the biblical principles on how to live your life that are found in the bible. Conduct is personal behavior, it is a way of acting or how to behave or manager oneself.
How do you conduct yourself in public, with friends, with your parents, or at school? Do you act differently when you're with different people? The way you act tells others about your relationship with Jesus. Your heart spills outward what is within (Prov. 4:23; John 13:35). In my own life I know if I haven't read my bible for a few days I can get short and aggravated quickly with others. I'll be negative because my eyes are not on Jesus. In those times my conduct changes and it's not for the better.
Godly Conduct:
- Helps build up other believers
- Drives a closer relationship with Jesus
- Good witness to unsaved friends & family
Ungodly Conduct:
- Weakens fellow believers & can compromise them
- Is a bad witness to unsaved friends & family-
Your Christian life in the world should look like a life that is given to Jesus. You will slip up. There will always be times that you have little mess up along the way. It's what you do with those little mess ups, or maybe sometimes big mess ups, that matters.
Now by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandment he who says "I know him" and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word truly the love of God is perfected in him by this we know that we are in him.
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A movie log formerly known as Bookishness / By Charles Matthews
"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998), of not being completely in on the joke. This time it's the wacky family joke, familiar from Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You and numerous sitcoms. It works in large part because the cast plays it with such beautifully straight faces. And especially because it's such a magnificent cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson (who co-wrote the screenplay with Anderson), Bill Murray, and Danny Glover. It's also beautifully designed by David Wasco and filmed by Robert D. Yeoman, with Anderson's characteristically meticulous, almost theatrical framing. Hackman, as the paterfamilias in absentia Royal Tenenbaum, is the cast standout, in large part because he gets to play loose when everyone else maintains a morose deadpan, but also because he's an actor who has always been cast as the loose cannon. Even in films in which he's supposed to be reserved and repressed, such as The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974), he keeps you waiting for the inevitable moment when he snaps. Here he's loose from the beginning, but he doesn't tire you out with his volatility because he knows how much of it to keep in check at any given moment.
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Colon Irrigation/Hydrotherapy
Colon toxicity can be the underlying cause of many of these commonly reported health problems and may indicate the need for colon hydrotherapy…
What are the Benefits of Colon Hydrotherapy?
A healthy, strong functioning colon is essential to maintaining good health. Your colon, together with the kidneys, lungs and skin are responsible for eliminating waste from the body. But over time, your colon may lose its ability to properly eliminate all waste from the gastrointestinal tract due to a combination of poor diet, improper food combining, drug intake and/or lifestyle.
If this happens, the colon may become saturated with harmful toxins. And through a process called 'autointoxication' … these toxic substances can be transported into the bloodstream where the lymphatic and circulatory systems, as well as the lungs and kidneys, become overburdened and expose you to serious health risks.
Colon Hydrotherapy can be most beneficial in helping to restore good health by:
- Clearing the colon of old, hardened, waste material and harmful toxins
- Restoring proper pH balance to the body
- Stimulating the immune systems
- Allowing freer passage of nutrients into the blood
- Increasing prevention of toxic absorption via healthy mucosa
- Providing a favourable environment for bacteria and micro flora for digestion
- Strengthening peristaltic (natural muscular contraction) activity in the colon
- Promoting a return of normal, regular bowel movements
Millions of people in this country — who suffer all manner of health problems — may never even consider that the source of their problems is a toxic, sluggish colon. This is not surprising. The traditional treatment of health disorders, disease symptoms and disease management… using pharmaceuticals and surgery… may completely obscure the root cause of recurring health problems.
Bowel dysfunction may be the root cause of a multitude of chronic health problems, sickness and disease!
Most experts agree… if you aren't having at least 2 or 3 bowel movements every day, then by definition, you should consider yourself constipated.


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Final tests
Bodek can run also a final test on the submissions.
The final test would normally be run after the assignment's Due date.
It can be run on all submissions by selecting Generate/Regenerate all Bodek feedback PDFs from the Grading action menu on the View/grade all submissions page (or from the Assignment administration block).
It can be run on a single submission by selecting Generate/Regenerate Bodek feedback PDF from the student's Edit drop-down menu on the View/grade all submissions page
Note: The options exist only if the final test file exists. See below.
The final test works similarly to the presubmission test but with the following differences:
- Instead of directory presubmission, files associated with the final test are placed in directory final i.e.
- The PDF file generated by Bodek is stored as ~course/course-admin/bodek/assignments/<assignment>/final/pdf/<login>.pdf.
It is available in Moodle (to both Student and Teachers), alongside any other feedback files, as feedback.pdf (unless Feedback type of Feedback files is disabled in the assignment Settings.)
- Students are not sent email
- The profile file can have an additional directive max_test_time.
This sets the maximum time, in seconds, the test is allowed to run. (It defaults to 300 - the same as for the presubmission test). Maximum value is 3600.
- File descriptor 3 (socket) is provided for the test script to write to.
Anything written to this file descriptor is copied to ~<course>/course-admin/bodek/assignments/<assignment>/final/results/<login>
Writing to the results fileSpecial care should be taken with the file descriptor 3 as, technically, also the student's submission code could write to it.
A simple way to detect when this happens is to start writing to the file descriptor only after all the tests have run and to begin with some special header.
A better option is to close the descriptor before executing the student's code. For example, by using close_fds = True to close all descriptors in each execution of the student's code as a python subprocess; by using 3>&- on each exec of the student's code in a sh/bash script; or by initially setting the FD_CLOEXEC (close-on-exec flag) on fd 3 with fcntl in e.g. python or perl. See Closing file descriptor 3.
Note: The descriptor can't be closed if the submission code is run as a python module.
Preventing students seeing the feedback fileThe simplest way to prevent students seeing any feedback, including feedback comments, grades, and feedback files, is to hide the item in the Gradebook.
See question How can I hide feedback and grades until all submissions are graded? in the Assignment miniguide.
HUJI Moodle is a service of the System group of the School of Computer Science & Engineering
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Streptococcus mutans are bacteria found in the mouth that are primarily responsible for dental caries (cavity) formation. Previous research has found that the essential oil of turmeric and polyphenols of cocoa inhibit the biofilm formation and growth of S. mutans (Lee et al. 2011; Percival et al. 2006). This project investigates the replication of turmeric and cocoa data with the use of store-bought spices rather than extraction, and expands existing research to include the effect of other spices on the growth and biofilm formation of S. mutans. We found ginger to inhibit the growth of S. mutans, while cocoa and cinnamon inhibit both growth and biofilm formation. Turmeric and cardamom had no effect on growth or biofilm formation.
Recommended Citation
Lauren Lau
"The Effect of Common Household Spices on Streptococcus Mutans,"
SUURJ: Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 1
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Zelig Trailer (1983)
"You wanted more when it was all over!" 15 July 1983 Comedy, Romance 79 mins
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Watch the official Zelig 1983 trailer in HD below or find more Zelig videos on Vidimovie.


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BIO's Rosado joins FMI
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Food Marketing Institute said Tuesday that it has appointed Robert Rosado as director of government relations.
According to FMI, Rosado will focus on legislation that impacts supermarkets in the areas of food safety, health care, food deserts and the 2012 Farm Bill.
"Rob has a broad range of expertise in food and agriculture that will be very helpful to FMI and its members. His background also includes working with federal agencies on many issues related to the food retail industry," FMI president and CEO Leslie Sarasin said.
Rosado joins FMI from the Biotechnology Industry Organization where he was policy manager for the food and agriculture issues. Before joining BIO, he served as director of legislative and political affairs for the Foreign Agriculture Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Target's recycling efforts pay off
MINNEAPOLIS — Target said that its in-store recycling stations collected and recycled more than 170 million shopping bags, weighing more than 1,800 tons, between April and December 2010.
The retailer also said that its in-store recycling stations, which were launched to make it easier for guests to recycle common household items, also collected and recycled more than 700 tons of bottles and cans, as well as nearly 2 million units of such small electronics as MP3 players and cell phones during the nine-month period.
Target launched recycling stations in all of its stores in April 2010 as part of its celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The retailer added that it is continuing its sustainability efforts for this year's Earth Day and beyond.
Click here for more information about Target's commitment to the environment.
Walmart's social commerce gets 'Kosmix' intervention
BRISBANE, Calif. — Walmart announced that it has acquired the services of Kosmix, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company, to grow its multichannel strategy.
Kosmix's founders Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman will lead the newly formed @WalmartLabs, based in Silicon Valley, which Walmart said will create technologies and businesses around social and mobile commerce that will support Walmart's global multichannel strategy, which integrates the shopping experience between bricks-and-mortar stores and e-commerce. Harinarayan and Rajaraman are early pioneers of online shopping; their first company, Junglee, was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998.
"We are expanding our capabilities in today's rapidly growing social commerce environment," said Eduardo Castro-Wright, Walmart's vice chairman. "Social networking and mobile applications are increasingly becoming a part of our customers' day-to-day lives globally, influencing how they think about shopping both online and in retail stores. We are excited to have the Kosmix team join us to accelerate the development of our social and mobile commerce offerings."
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Looking at the multiplicity of layers that might define a brand is the only way to work toward innovation
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 1, 2008
scenarioDNA (http://www.scenariodna.com)] has been using non-traditional methods to capture the mindset of elusive consumers since 2001. They recognized early on that using traditional methods such as focus groups and surveys could not capture the necessary nuances effectively--essentially, before people know what to ask for. To that end, the boutique firm developed a suite of services allowing brands to monitor the many layers of media consumption.
"Looking at the multiplicity of layers that might define a brand is the only way to work toward innovation," says Marie Tupot, research director at New York-based think tank scenarioDNA. "It's not about one big idea anymore. It's about a bunch of ideas plugging into the right consumers."
There is a mandate to allow research to evolve with the consumer. Without question, research has become a slippery slope for brand managers. The current consumer landscape makes broad-reaching "mother ship" studies outdated as soon as they're published.
scenarioDNA's latest offering is intelliVillage™ global networked consumer panels. The endeavor is the culmination of a long-evolving partnership between scenarioDNA and Neighborhood America, a leading provider of enterprise social networking solutions that enable brands to meet business objectives through strategic consumer engagement.
"Brand planning needs to get closer to research so you can push it where you need it," says Tim Stock, managing director, scenarioDNA. "Why? Because supporting the unexpected goes farther into uncovering serendipitous happenings than tradition hypothesis validation. And that's something you can work with."
The key is to source consumers who are already engaging in behavior that is in step with the brand in question. The approach looks beyond demographics and begins at a point of passion. That starting point is critical, as it leads to more robust, actionable findings. People already engaged in brand-related activity can evolve into excellent brand facilitators, even if they've never met the brand before. scenarioDNA's approach follows five tenets:
1. Build a network of villages. Find the most passionate consumers that are likely to get in step with your brand and engage them in the process.
2. Establish multiple touchpoints. Mobile, voice, landline, TXT, video, IM. Consumers live on a multiplicity of channels crossing quickly from one to the other.
3. Push, pull, observe and converse for data. Asking questions alone is not enough. To see the subtext of possibilities, one has to listen and think beyond the available answers.
4. Homerun the information. Aggregating data into one easily accessible bucket where it can be compared and contrasted gives all data equal weight.
5. View the results in context. Creating a context of personas allows a planner to look beyond the current project and see where the brand will need to move.
Because the age of the early adopter has begun to shift behind us, it's critical to evolve the way we look at consumers. To date, the most incremental, organic media transactions prove to have the strongest hold on everyday consumers. For example, mobile success is being found among a younger set looking for quick fixes regarding on-the-fly bill payments and pre-ordering food to avoid long lines, rather than the high-finance executive. These everyday consumers quickly engage technology and media in the smallest of ways, and are not necessarily aware that they are beginning the behavior.
intelliVillage™ joins scenarioDNA's suite of services including mDive™ global mobile polls, iLens™ global consumer documentaries and CultureMap™ cultural context mapping. The services are designed to function as complementary overlays.
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Karrueche Tran Shows Love To Royalty — Made Peace With Chris Brown?
OMG, this is huge! Just when Karrueche Tran seemed to be dunzo with Chris Brown for good, she showed love to his precious daughter Royalty on Instagram! Has she made peace with Breezy after their huge blowout?
It seems like Karrueche Tran, 27, can only hold a grudge against her ex Chris Brown, 26, for so long — especially when his daughter, Royalty, is too cute for words! Despite Chris cheating on her and fathering Royalty behind her back, Karrueche seemingly took the high road by showing the 1-year-old some love on Instagram! Does this mean that she's ready to forgive and forget with Chris?
In a shocking turn of events, Karrueche liked a picture of Royalty on Instagram! We don't blame her, because the pic is so adorable with the tot being held in the arms of her friends. However, it's a little ironic that she's liking pictures of Royalty after she made it pretty clear that she was done with Chris, after he forced himself into her car and they had a big blowout. Plus, Royalty has been a sensitive subject to Kae, for obvious reasons including the fact that had Chris never cheated on her they might still be together. In fact, when she saw the first picture Chris with Royalty, it even took her a minute to compose herself!
HollywoodLife.com told you that Chris' interview with Ryan Seacrest where Chris talked all about her, was the "last straw." Given Chris and Karrueche's history of dating on-again/off-again, it really seems that whenever things feel final, they can't quit each other!
Karrueche Tran Pouring Herself Into Work After Chris Brown Drama
Perhaps Karrueche is showing that she's taking the high road by supporting Royalty. Karrueche's career is on a roll now, and that's what she's pouring her heart and soul into! She's currently starring in the StyleHaul web series, Vanity, and she loves taking on the challenging role — especially when she can use it to distract herself from her personal troubles.
"It helps to block out all the noise," she told JetMag.com. "When I have all this drama going on in my personal life and unfortunately, it's all over the media, I can just work and put my time and energy into that. You can't go wrong with working hard." You tell 'em, Kae!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do you think Karrueche has made peace with Chris? Let us know!
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Early in my career, at a seminar for new attorneys, a judge gave me a piece of advice that has guided me in representing immigrants at various courts, agency interviews, and immigration appeals to this day.
The advice, though simple, was profound.
Good lawyers, said the judge, prepare in advance. They know their evidence before their hearings start. They maximize their clients' chances for success.
In I-601 hardship cases, sometimes for financial reasons, immigrants attempt to represent themselves. Many under-estimate the complexity of immigration law. Some simply fail to put in the time and energy needed to win.
Others hire legal representatives. Yet, they do not actively participate in putting together their cases. More often than not, they are ignorant about what actions are being taken to prepare their cases.
Neither situation is ideal for winning.
Preparing, Organizing, And Presenting Evidence
As a result, in this blog post, I outline eight insights to help immigrants prepare, organize, and present evidence – with or without the help of a lawyer – in an effort to improve their chance for victory and overcoming the threat of family separation.
Preparing, organizing, and presenting WINNING evidence is not easy. These pointers will help bring you and your family closer to removing the threat of separation forever.
1. Successful Clients Take Responsibility For Their Cases
2. Never Underestimate The Hardship Of Proving Hardship
3. Is Your Hardship Ordinary Or Extreme?
4. What Is Your Special Immigration Story?
5. Do Not Overlook Community Service
6. Show. Tell. Prove. But Do Not Exaggerate
7. Do You Know Your Qualifying Relatives?
8. Explain The Totality Of Your Circumstances
1. Successful Clients Take Responsibility For Their Cases
The best clients – those most likely to be successful – take matters into their own hands. They take control of their cases and work closely with their attorneys.
They don't just drop their cases on the laps of their lawyers and disappear for months.
Lawyers cannot perform magic. They can compile evidence. They can help organize it. They can help shape it.
But they cannot — or at least they should not — perform such services alone. Because they do not know their clients' life history, they cannot possibly know clients' hardships without the input and cooperation of their clients.
In reality, clients who operate in a hands off approach are assuming some magic formula — A-B-C-D-E — exists for success. But since everyone has different lives, different histories, there is no one formula to fit all cases.
What happens when clients don't play an active role in their cases? They're stuck, clueless, if they lose their cases.
Here's an example.
Shortly after I launched my Riverside immigration law practice, an older gentleman came to visit him. He explained that his wife was stuck in Mexico. She went to an interview. They would not let her return to the United States. The gentleman and his wife were told by those who prepared her papers that she would be able to return safely and legally after her interview.
She didn't win.
The couple had three children who were doing fairly well in school. He was worried about what would happen to them without his wife. When asked about what evidence was presented to the government on behalf of his wife, he did not know what was sent, what was presented. He did not know his wife's case was about.
He was clueless.
Some clients hear stories from others, like their uncles, who have the same amount of kids and work in similar jobs, and they think just because their uncle won, they will win. They think their situation is the same.
No two cases are ever exactly.
Don't fall into the trap thinking there is a formula. You need to present your case as if it is the most unique case ever.
And you need to plan an active role in developing the evidence it takes to win your case.
2. Never Underestimate The Hardship Of Proving Hardship
What types of misconceptions can undermine an immigrant's chances of winning a family unity waiver and winning their deportation defense case?
Based on questions from the audience, prior to the taping of this presentation, the following concerns stand out for immigrants seeking I-601 waivers.
A. What is the biggest no-no for a client facing hardship?
As noted earlier, the biggest no-no is to believe lawyers have some type of magic pixie dust that can make all your immigration problems disappear. Nope. Rather, the best chance for victory is to work closely with your lawyer.
The magic pixie dust approach creates a situation where many attorneys just give their clients a few forms to fill out without taking enough time to really connect with their clients on building cases together. It flows from the false belief that a evidentiary formula — A, B, C, D, E — exists, which allow attorneys to avoid engaging directly with their clients.
Instead, clients need to contact their lawyers and ask to be more involved in shaping their cases in conjunction with their lawyers.
You might have fears about talking to your attorney. You might have fears about sharing all details of your immigration history.
If you want to improve your chances for success, you need to face your fears.
B. How careful should immigrants handling their case without an attorney be? In other words, how bad can they mess up their cases?
The worse that can happen is to lose. With or without a lawyer.
Sometimes a case can lost so badly that there is no possibility of a second chance, no possibility of winning an appeal, a motion to reopen, or a motion to reconsider.
Decision making at immigration court is discretionary. This means the adjudicators – either government officers or immigration judges – make subjective decisions, based on certain predefined rules, about how they perceive the evidence.
The rules may be more or less objective . . . the perception is subjective.
Even if an immigrant thinks the officer or judge was unreasonable, the challenge afterwards has to be made on technical grounds because discretionary decisions are nearly beyond review.
Without some type of technical mistake or evidentiary error, winning a post-decision motion or appeal is just about impossible.
Take criminal cases. The innocent sometimes go to prison for life.
This happens for two reasons. First, the evidence presented might not sufficient to prove a person's innocence. Second, the evidence might be substantial, but the jury does not view the evidence in the same way as the defendant and his attorney.
Evidence presented . . . evidence perceived.
C. What is the rate of success?
I'm not sure what folks mean when they ask about success rates.
I understand what success means. I understand what success rate means. However, in general, I think discussion of success rates can be misleading.
Moreover, they can create a false sense of security.
When I first moved in Riverside and start practicing here, a local lawyer was running a huge telephone book ad. It proclaimed "99% success rate."
I thought to myself, this guy must be really, really good, or he knows how to carefully pick his cases.
What type of cases was he handling?
Visa petitions? Removal trials? Citizenship applications? Deportation appeals?
Some clients who came to my office would ask me, "Hey, this guy across town promises 99% success. What do you promise?"
My response was simple.
I don't promise a specific success rate. I do not give percentages on my cases.
Instead, I promise my best efforts. I promise to do my best to make success happen for you. But I cannot promise you a certain success percentage rate.
Besides, what does 99% really mean? Even if the 99% comment is truthful, how do you know your case does not fit into the 1%?
Right now, immigration judges are administratively closing a lot of court cases. They count them as completed cases. But is an administratively closed case the same as a winning case?
In some administratively closed cases, immigrant defendants may have to return back to court in three years after the courts have caught up with its older or more pressing matters like the Central American refugee youth cases.
Is this success?
3. Is Your Hardship Ordinary Or Extreme?
Hardship is a confusing concept for many immigrant families.
Moreover, the idea of an extreme hardship – not just any old hardship – is difficult to grasp for most individuals, not only immigrants.
Another difficulty is caused by the use of supposedly different standards to evaluate hardship in various types of cases.
For instance, immigration courts have said that exceptional and extremely unusual hardship is a stricter standard than extreme hardship.
But for you, that's not necessarily the way to look at hardship. If you understand the word "extreme," it means the outermost edge. The only hardship worse than an extreme hardship is an unconscionable hardship, and that's a standard courts cannot use.
The concept of extreme hardship was originally used at immigration court in former suspension of deportation cases.
The same concept is now used for adjudicating I-601 family unity waivers. (One big difference is the qualifying relatives requirement which I will describe later in tip #7.)
So although courts – in cancellation of removal cases, not waiver cases – have tried to slide hardship into a new category, exceptional and extremely unusual hardship, it does not change how you need to look at your case.
In short, the idea is this: ordinary cases don't win.
Whether you have to prove an extreme hardship case or an exceptional and extremely unusual hardship, don't get hung up on the terminology. Just realize your case has to be vastly different than the ordinary case.
Let me explain this point a little clearer here.
Ordinary hardship is losing hardship . . .
. . . Extreme hardship or exceptional and extremely unusual hardship is winning hardship.
I'm going to give you some quotes from actual court cases to illustrate this issue.
What is extreme hardship?
According to the Board of Immigration Appeals, "without a showing of significant or actual potential injury substantially different and more severe than that suffered by the ordinary alien who is deported, extreme hardship would not be found".
What is exceptional and extremely unusual hardship?
In the BIA's view, to meet this standard, "immigrants must provide evidence of harm to his spouse, parent, or child substantially beyond that which ordinarily would be expected from the alien's deportation".
Not much difference, really.
On July 14, 2015, USCIS issued tentative new guides for hardship cases in the unlawful presence I-601 waiver context.
Some pundits claimed the proposal would soften the hardship equation. Well, upon my review, I did not see any major additions or substantive changes. On the contrary, I think some of the language could make it tougher to win hardship waivers.
On October 21, 2016, over a year later, USCIS issued its new policy manual for determining extreme hardship in the context of seeking family unity waivers.
My view is that the new policy guidelines do not change any existing rules. Rather, the guide merely clarifies some considerations for adjudicators. As a result, the tips offered in this blog post remain unaffected and continue to provide immigrant families with useful advice for developing winning I-601 waiver applications.
To simplify matters, when you're trying to figure out your evidence, just think of ordinary versus extreme. Ordinary is losing; extreme is winning.
Since courts have said that most hardships of immigrants are ordinary, what is extreme?
If you draw a hardship spectrum from 0 to 100%, we know 50% is average. That's ordinary. So if your case is about the same as others' cases in terms of severity, hardship severity, that's average, that's ordinary.
Does that mean if your hardship is more severe than 51% of all hardship cases, your hardship is extreme? No way. That might be a tiny bit unusual. It's not extreme.
- More severe than 60% of cases? Is that extreme hardship?
- More severe than 70%? of cases? Is that extreme hardship?
- More severe than 80% of cases? Is that extreme hardship?
Okay, 90% is unconscionable. So I would guess a hardship that is more severe than 70%, or maybe 80%, of all other hardship cases is probably extreme hardship.
Remember the evaluation is subjective. I'll explain that more in a little while.
Unfortunately, most immigrants don't think like this. They think in a formula sequence.
In reality, is there really an ordinary alien with an average hardship?
Is that a family with two kids, three kids, or four kids . . . ages 7, 8, 11, or 14 . . . earning $10,000 a year or $30,000 a year . . .driving in a beat-up '63 Chevy or a relatively new Toyota?
What type of dreams do they have for their family?
Is it an immigrant who just sits around in the backyard every Sunday and has a party? Or someone who reads to their children, hoping they become astronauts, doctors, and accountants?
What type of job does an ordinary alien work?
I don't believe there's an ordinary alien. That is the attitude you must have about your case and you have to help those who are helping you to explain your situation this way.
You are not ordinary. Your hardship is not ordinary.
Prove it.
4. What Is Your Special Immigration Story?
If any of you have visited my website, you know that I talk about a story when I met Charles Kuralt. He was a very famous reporter. He won a lot of awards. Every Sunday evening, he would interview someone off the streets and tell their life story in an hour. Every story was beautiful. They were great stories. He won a Pulitzer Prize year after year for his shows.
Well, when I first started college as a freshman, I wanted to be a journalist. When he came on campus to speak, I was given the assignment to interview him.
I asked him, "How do you choose your subjects? How do you find these people? Who does the research? You must have a great research team."
And he told me, "Carlos it's really relatively easy."
The way he described it, it was like the game, "Pin The Donkey." He said, "I go to a room. They blindfold me. They have a map of the United States, a big map. And they spin me around and I walk and I stick a needle on the map, and whatever city or rural area we hit, that's where we travel to. When we get there, we ask people if they would allow me to interview them and the first person who says yes, that's who I interview, and then that's the story which gets presented on television."
I thought to myself, "What an amazing formula."
He told me, "Let me give you a secret. Everybody – absolutely everybody – has a Pulitzer Prize novel in them. They just need the right storyteller."
That's the way I look at immigration now.
It doesn't matter what country you're from. You've traveled so many miles. You've had many ordeals and obstacles in your life and now you're married, engaged to a citizen or permanent resident. You may have children. You may not. You have dreams, different dreams. You want to buy a home. You want to live the American life. You want to travel. You want to be able to put food on the table for the kids.
You have a special story – and you need to make sure you tell that story when you present your waiver or defend yourself in court.
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If you have anyone helping you, you have to make sure he or she understands that they have to tell your story. All those factors of your life story – the money, the home, the school – must be put together in a way to tell your Pulitzer Prize novel.
Now, many judges like to cut hearings short because they're overloaded and they want to narrow the focus on certain areas. But if you've done your job of outlining other issues, the minor issues, don't exclude them. They count. They help build your case.
When you combine them with your bigger issues, you now have a better chance to meet the extreme hardship standard, or the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard, necessary to win your case.
5. Do Not Overlook Community Service
Another issue you should raise, whenever possible, is community service.
One of the big arguments I often had in the beginning of my career was how government lawyers and immigration courts look at the community service of immigrants.
I call their approach "elitist thinking."
I once had a judge cut me off in closing argument because I have infuriated him so much with this analysis that he said, "Are you implying that I grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth?"
Oh well . . . if the shoe fits . . .
My point is this: community service doesn't have to be limited to being the president of the Kiwanis Club, or an officer of the Chamber of Commerce.
You could be just a volunteer for your church, for your children's school, at the YMCA teaching kids how to swim or play soccer. You're there every week, every Saturday, and you give your best.
That's community service, too.
Yet when I read the transcripts of cases as an appeals attorney, I wonder why aren't more lawyers using community service in their hardship cases?
And why are those who incorporate such issues limiting their presentations to the elitist approach of evaluating community service?
6. Show. Tell. Prove. But Do Not Exaggerate
Compare these words:
- Discomfort versus disaster
- Misfortune versus misery
- Displeasure versus desperation
- Hard times versus hopelessness
- Difficult versus destruction
Do you sense a difference in the words?
The first set of words describe ordinary hardship. The second set – disaster, misery, desperation, destruction – describe extreme hardship, exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.
When you are presenting your evidence, you have to present evidence that shows your hardship is like the latter category of words, not the former.
Some clients who come to my office asking about our family immigration services tell me, "My husband works the same job as this other person and we both have three kids. He got a waiver for hardship, so we should get a waiver for hardship too."
Or you read these good character letters people write as part of family unity applications for their friends and relatives. They list a few factors, and they think that's enough for showing hardship.
In such matters, there is nothing unusual about what they describe. The case is going to look pretty ordinary in the eyes of the adjudicator.
Extreme hardship is extreme. Ordinary hardship is ordinary. You may have the evidence to show extreme hardship. You may have a life full of exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.
Still, you must compile the evidence and put it together in a way that your Pulitzer Prize novel gets told.
Hardship is not just heartache, sorrow, and sadness. Boy, do I hear this a lot. And I say, "Stop it."
You need more. I understand the pain and emotional aspects. But this is ordinary. It's like economic and financial loss. For instance, I hear, often, "If I get deported, my wife's not able to put food for the kids and the clothes."
Once in a while economic suffering can be an extreme hardship. But not usually. Courts have said financial hardship, economic hardship, by itself is not enough to win your case.
In some cases, people are doing very well. So they lose.
The judge says, "You're a successful business person. You know how to make money. You can go home and make money over there. Plus you speak the language and you're from there originally – it's not extreme hardship to me. Economic and financial inconvenience, maybe, but not extreme hardship."
Don't exaggerate when you're discussing your economic circumstances.
- Q: "When you go home, can you get a job?"
- A: "No, I can't get a job."
- Q: "Why?"
- A: "I'm too old."
- Q: "How old are you?"
- A: "I'm 37."
- Q: "Do you have any skills?"
- A: "No."
- Q: "Well did you ever have work before?"
- A: "Yeah?"
- Q: "What did you do?"
- A: "As a cashier."
- Q: "Well you got a skill."
And the judge is going to ask about it.
Are you telling me there are no stores or cash registers in your home country?
Don't exaggerate.
Some people want to exaggerate their hardship. You can exaggerate to me. You can exaggerate to your husband, wife, children, cousins, aunts, friends, community members, churchgoers, and coworkers.
It will not work at court. It is not going to work with an adjudicator.
Don't exaggerate.
Show. Tell. Prove.
Don't simply conclude.
Don't just say, "My wife won't be able to afford dinner for my kids if I'm deported."
Prove your hardship.
How much does she make? Why can't your wife work? Does your wife have an illness prevent you from doing any jobs outside your home? Or maybe you have a little baby, you can't afford child care?
Prove your hardship. Be specific.
There are ways to use the issue of economic hardship – but not by just saying there will be economic hardship.
Add details.
For example, "My children have dreams. They want to go to college." "Right now we're sending them to parochial school. We live in a tough neighborhood and we want to protect them from the gangs."
Add details.
Show. Tell. Prove.
It's amazing how many families are clueless when it comes to explaining the hardship to their children.
Children are one of the most important factors in a hardship analysis, especially if they're U.S. citizens.
I do not think judges and adjudicators want to strip the kids of the benefits of U.S. citizenship by forcing them to move to another country. But if you don't show the evidence, the immigrant will be deported and separated from their family or the children are going to "lose" their citizenship, essentially, by having to move to another country.
Don't be general. Be specific.
Tell your story. Not just a loose collection of facts. Tie the evidence together.
You may have a hardship, an extreme hardship. But you need to show it. You need to tell it.
You need to prove it.
7. Do You Know Your Qualifying Relatives?
The requirement of qualifying relatives is another technical issue which confuses a lot of people.
Basically, when you are presenting a family unity or deportation defense case, the law specifies whose hardship counts. Those who count are considered your qualifying relatives.
Under suspension of deportation, you can show the extreme hardship to yourself, the immigrant – your spouse if your spouse is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident – your child if your child is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident – or to your parent if your parent is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
When the law for deportation relief changed to cancellation of removal, the hardship requirement changed from extreme hardship to exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.
The new law deleted the immigrant's own hardship from direct analysis, so now the immigrant could only show hardship to his spouse, child, or parent, if they were U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Under cancellation of removal, no longer does the immigrant's personal hardship count.
Under the original family unity waivers, the 601 inadmissibility waivers you file abroad, who is a qualifying relative for hardship purposes?
A citizen or permanent resident spouse. A citizen or permanent resident parent.
Hey, wait a minute? What about the kids?
They're not statutorily qualified.
What about the Stateside I-601 family unity waivers implemented by President Obama for immigrant families a few years ago? Who are the quantifying relatives?
A U.S. citizen parent or a U.S. citizen spouse.
What about a lawful resident spouse? What about a lawful resident parent?
Oh, my goodness, they shrunk the list again.
So the list of qualifying relatives has went from immigrant, lawful resident or U.S. citizen spouse, child, or parent . . . to merely U.S. citizen spouse, or parent.
With each new immigration program, the list of qualifying relative is slimmed down as to who counts.
Editor's Note: On August 29, 2016, after this blog post was published, a new federal regulation went into affect. Under this change, a lawful permanent resident spouse or parent now count as qualifying relatives for purposes of I-601 stateside waivers.
You have to know your qualifying relatives.
You have to know whom you're building your case around, because your evidence must center on the hardship of those who meet the requirements of your qualifying relatives.
8. Explain The Totality Of Your Circumstances
Totality of the circumstances is the real test for evaluating hardship.
This means all circumstances of hardship should be explained by the immigrant and examined by the I-601 examiner.
There are direct and indirect factors of hardship. Let's dive into this.
Assume we are discussing the hardship of a lawful permanent resident spouse. The hardship of the children does not count.
Really? Yes, really, because children are not qualifying relatives for I-601 waivers. But this you should know: we're talking about direct hardship. The law says the hardship factors of children don't count directly because they are not qualifying relatives.
But what if your spouse's hardship is adversely impacted and made worse because of what's going to happen to the children if you get deported. Well, then, it does affect her hardship, doesn't it?
That's an indirect factor of your spouse's hardship. Keep that in mind.
Totality of the circumstances.
Remember, too, that since government officers can make discretionary decisions, two may look at the same hardship issues but view the impact differently.
Let me give you a practice tip.
When you present your case, prepare your case for the meanest, rudest, strictest, smartest adjudicator you'll ever meet.
Why? Because if you don't, you might not be ready on the day of reckoning.
It's better to prepare for a tough officer or judge and get a sympathetic officer or judge – than to prepare for a sympathetic officer or judge and end up with a tough officer or judge.
Always prepare for the hardest possible opponent.
Always. Always. Always.
The officer or judge who will decide your case has discretionary power. They can look at your evidence, and conclude, "I think you have presented a lot of good evidence, yet I don't think you it rises to the level of extreme hardship."
Remember that and you'll never take preparation too lightly.
By Carlos Batara, Immigration Law, Policy, And Politics


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Store management software is a computerized system specially created for monitoring sales, delivery and inventory of the business. Retail, manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies make effective use of this system to reduce costs and improve revenue.
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With the store management software in place, businesses are able to get an accurate picture of the items in stock and the cash flow of the unit. It helps the business to track customer information and can be used in a single store or a chain of stores. The power of technology ensures you to get the competitive edge when you make the prudent decision of embracing the perfect store management software for your business needs. It gives you tailor-made solutions and ensures your business is completely automated saving valuable operating costs and time.
Simplify Complex Tasks
Complex business tasks like data entry, reports and maintenance are made simple with the ideal store management software in place. In every business, it is essential for you to evaluate the buying patterns of your customer. It is crucial for you to access the quick selling items and ensure that the inventory is in stock. The software management system gives you both foresight and insight into your business trends and the preferences of your customers. This renders you the unique opportunity to serve the needs of your customer better. It helps you to incorporate the customer loyalty programs that render more sales and increased profits.
Book-Keeping Made Easy
Gone are the days when you had to double-check book- keeping entries for your business. The deployment of store management software eliminates the need for manual checking. There is no duplication of accounting entries and human efficiency is completely optimized in your business. Manpower dependency is reduced and the business does not need separate books for accounts and inventory.
Streamline Processes & Ensure Better Business Development
The biggest advantage of a good store management software is that it streamlines processes and shoulders your burdens. This means you do not have to be physically present all the time to monitor your business. The software will generate all the records and the reports you need. It gives you the opportunity to focus on other core matters of the business and improve its prospects in other areas.
Customer satisfaction and loyalty also improves once you have the system in place. They are happy with proactive and prompt services and this gives you a competitive edge in the market.
Therefore, if you have a store business and wish to optimize it to the fullest potential, it is prudent for you to embrace top quality store management software. The installment of such a system will save precious time and money. The staffs of your units will also benefits as it has a simple interface and can be accessed by anybody authorized at a given point of time. This means you receive all vital business information on a single platform and this helps you keep your business employees and customers happy round-the-clock.
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Nishikigoi or "Koi" is the Japanese term for Carp.
"Carp is just a very common fish that goes back about 2500 years ago. It originates in China. It was a good food source," said Connie Arthur, an aquarist at the Tennessee Aquarium. She explained that 500 years later, they introduced them tot he Japanese who kept them in rice fields.
"In Asian cultures, they are also viewed as symbols of perseverance, strength, and individualism" said Arthur. Koi are now prized possessions. Arthur said people enter their Koi into competitions, similar to dog shows, but for Koi. There are more than 150 varieties with vibrant shades of orange, red, white, blue, and gold metallic.
"A champion can be sold for as much as 250,000 dollars," said Arthur. The more beautiful and unique-looking, the better.
Koi do not have two common body parts: teeth and a stomach. Instead of teeth, they have grinding plates.
"The way the Koi digest their food is through their intestinal track and the track is about two times the length of their body," said Arthur. Koi can only survive in a very specific environment, with a water temperature between 59 and 77 degrees Fahrenheit. This is because they have a lower immune system.


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Yeah, not really winning me over. Sure, Azer was a dick in his response, but it's entirely valid. You guys could have simply scoped your package using @kik/whatever and bypassed the whole craziness.
The npm folks certainly didn't help, and have taken the situation to a whole other level of batshit insanity. What was originally a naming dispute has become a referendum on the viability of npm — the public repo, the organization, the people in the organization, the lack of governance, etc.
I'm waiting for npm to announce that they will move to the github model where everything is scoped to an org/username, and thus bypass this entire disaster. Oh, and maybe start adding some hashes/signatures to packages so that one cannot claim a project, then publish the exact same version with completely different contents.


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The 2018 Renfrewshire Sports Awards will showcase the dedication, hard work and achievements of local coaches, volunteers and officials.
Across Renfrewshire, there are a huge number of people of all ages and backgrounds involved in a wide range of sporting activities and these awards are a chance to highlight some of the outstanding commitment that goes towards developing local sport.
The event, presented by Renfrewshire Leisure, will be held on Thursday 4th October at Johnstone Town Hall with tickets priced at only £35. The evening will consist of the award ceremony itself, dinner and live entertainment.
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Readers of all ages have grown up experiencing the pioneer life through the eyes of Laura IngallWilder. In this book, the third volume of a series, Laura's friends and family tell of the woman behind the stories. Though best known for her best-selling children's series, Laura led an abundant life that spanned almost an entire century. Volume three-Hardback
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Walgreens printing extended to Android users of greeting card app
Greeting card mobile application PhotoCard is appealing to Android smartphone and tablet users, offering Walgreens customers 30 percent off when they make a greeting card for Valentine's Day and pick it up in-store.
The app, created by Printicular, a smartphone printing service, allows users to create greeting cards for multiple holidays and occasions throughout the year, including birthdays, invitations, baby announcements and Mother's and Father's Days. By allowing users to create a card and pick it up in a Walgreens' store in the same day, the pharmacy chain drives in consumers to the point of sale, making it more likely they will make an additional purchase.
"Turn your favorite photo into a unique and personal greeting card that will capture the heart of the one you love," said Bruce Seymour, managing director of MEA Mobile, New York. "PhotoCard: Greeting Card Maker is an app for any occasion, birthdays, weddings, Easter and Christmas, as well as Valentine's Day, and it comes with dozens of great card designs.
"Just choose your photo, create the card, click print, and have it ready for same day collection all from your phone," he said.
MEA Mobile is a product lab with photo and video technologies, including iSupr8, iLapse, and Printicular.
Spreading the love
PhotoCard: Greeting Card Maker is the first Android app for greeting card printing via Walgreens' QuickPrints API program. A comparable iOS app already exists.
Printicular's PhotoCard app lets users choose any photo on their phones to create a greeting card, which can be printed at any of the more than 4,000 Walgreens stores across the U.S. and will be ready for same-day collection.
On the app, users can make cards for Valentine's Day, birthdays, baby announcements, Easter, Father's Day, invitations, Christmas, Mother's Day and thank you's. There is also a blank canvas option for any occasion.
Walgreens is currently running a promotion to encourage customers to try it, offering 30 percent off their order using promo code "MEAM."
Although the app allows for photo printing at multiple locations, Printicular has teamed with the pharmacy chain to offer the aforementioned promotion to encourage consumers to save money by choosing to print at Walgreens.
Printicular claims that more than 20,000 photos are printed every day from its range of single purpose apps, which includes prints, posters, canvas and now greeting cards.
The PhotoCard app is available to download today from the Google Play Store or Apple's App Store. Print your favorite photos as greeting cards with PhotoCard: Greeting Card Maker.
Trucking along
As of late, Walgreens has also been working fiercely to translate into the mobile health industry.
Given the emergence of the mhealth space, an important new frontier for retailers could be mobile loyalty integrations, a strategy Walgreens has been most recently pioneering.
Walgreens and WebMD are poised to lead the mhealth sector in 2015 as they strengthen the connection between mobile health platforms and loyalty programs with their collaboration on a digital wellness program that incorporates Walgreens Balance Rewards. The two health companies have joined forces to roll out Your Digital Health Advisor, a virtual wellness-coaching platform that creates personalized goals and action plans for users seeking to make lifestyle changes (see story).
Walgreens also recently extended its mobile pharmacy leadership via a new partnership with WebMD that will drive smartphone use for prescription refills and wellness-driven rewards.
WebMD consumers will be able to access prescription refill and scheduling appointment options for Walgreens via the WebMD Web site or their mobile devices. The partnership is set to come into full effect in the coming months, with both brands hoping that making trusted information easily available will improve wellness in America and promote positive decision-making.
The brands have plans to integrate Healthy Target with the Walgreens Activity Tracker to offer customers new ways to capture and understand their health information.
Walgreens has long been a proponent of strong mobile strategy, prompting the retail chain to see in-store NFC payments double after its partnership with mobile payment solution Apple Pay (see story).
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Nachdem ich jetzt längere Zeit nur auf Facebook gepostet habe, nehme ich jetzt einen neue Anlauf mit diesem Blog. Ich werde hier nicht sehr intensiv bloggen, sondern hauptsächlich solche Beiträge hier posten, die ich mehr formatieren will, als es Facebook zuläßt. Continue reading
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Let's have another go …
After a hiatus when I limited my posting to Facebook I am giving it another go with blogging. It won't be very intensive; mostly I will use this blog for longer pieces which I want to format in ways Facebook does not allow. Continue reading
Not just evil …
In case you ever wondered whether anti-semitism was just evil, here is a humorous reminder that it is also a sign of lacking intelligence and education: Continue reading
A Shakespeare Reading Plan
Matthew Franck over at First Things Magazine presents a daily reading plan for reading through all of William Shakespeare's works in one year.
With a bit of effort, this online edition of the bard's works can be used. Continue reading
Shakespeare and Shabbath
Great thoughts from Stuart Dauermann on Shabbath: Continue reading
Clear and unambiguous
Clear and unambiguous words from the Pope on Christmas Day. Boldly stating the equivalence of our Western "abortion on demand" culture of death, which all too often we dare not talk about, and that of "ISIL" and other terror groups which we are much more ready to denounce. Continue reading
Free Church Eschatology (German)
Last month at the fall conference of Weg der Versöhnung in Salzburg I gave a short presentation on "Free Church Eschatology". Free church in this context is not a specific denomination but a collective term for mostly Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Charismatic churches in the German-speaking countries which are not part of the established Protestant (Lutheran and Reformed) churches. Continue reading
He comforts the broken and breaks the comfortable …
I went to church twice yesterday, and interestingly, Isaiah 40:1-11 was read in both churches: in the morning because it's in the Lectionary for Advent 2, and in the afternoon, at New City Wien, as part of a series from Isaiah.
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An Anglican Take on the Immaculate Conception
Interesting service at Christ Church Vienna this morning. This was my first normal, Sunday morning Eucharist according to the no longer so new Common Worship liturgy, and I was astonished how similar to a Roman Catholic post-Vatican II mass it seemed. Continue reading
"Orientation" does not excuse sin
In a blog post on the website of the "American Family Association" Bryan Fisher takes Dr. Albert Mohler of SBTS to task for his recent statement at a conference that he now believes it appropriate to speak of sexual orientation and that he regrets and repents of his past denial of such orientation. Continue reading


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Professor Rebecca Roiphe has a Ph.D. in American History and experience as a prosecutor, a background that serves her well in her field of expertise, legal ethics. In recent weeks, high-profile new stories about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates have elevated questions of legal ethics to the national stage. Below, Professor Roiphe discusses her work.
You've observed that notions of what is or isn't ethical are often based on tradition rather than hard and fast laws. In light of that, how does history guide your knowledge of the field?
History gives context. You see echoes of past behavior, and you put the pieces together in a different way. It's similar to an anthropologist going to a different country and observing how things work there.
If people violate professional traditions or norms, is that inherently bad?
No, but it's something you have to attend to. Traditions, norms, and professional codes come from doing work over and over again and developing a custom or practice. It is important to recognize that there is something valuable about these unwritten norms. Law and institutions are part of what protects democracy, but ethics and custom are critical as well.
How does your former role as an Assistant District Attorney inform your approach to ethical questions?
A prosecutor has a unique job. Your client is the public. It's a combination of being a lawyer and being a public official because you have to assess what is in the public interest throughout your case. Immediately, you have to decide whether to prosecute—a decision that will affect someone's life and the community. It's very weighty, and you're forced to grapple with it. I view that as a huge obligation and as part of a lawyer's responsibility. That experience is partially why I approach legal ethics questions the way I do. Even when you have an individual client, you still have an obligation to the legal system and the rule of law as a whole.
Is that something you try to instill when you teach Professional Responsibility?
Absolutely. In my classes, I use a problem-based method that puts the student in the position of a lawyer faced with an ethical question. We look at examples of people who haven't gotten it right, like the senior attorney in the 1977 Berkey-Kodak antitrust litigation case who lied to a federal judge to conceal documents. In addition, his associate saw these events unfold but did not say anything due to a mix of loyalty and uncertainty of what to do. They were both wrong. Sometimes we also screen television or film clips, which can help animate these issues. Ethics is difficult to teach in the abstract. The reality is that as a lawyer, you're going to be put into these real-world positions where you have to make a call, where there is a grey area. I try to train students to recognize complex questions and not simply defer to what a client or supervisor wants you to do.
Is that difficult for inexperienced lawyers?
It can be. Lawyers want to believe that their supervisors and mentors mean well. But if you do something unethical at the request of your supervisor, or even if you go along with someone else's unethical behavior, the system can suffer, and there can be professional consequences.
How has social media affected legal ethics?
It raises all kinds of issues. I taught a CLE on this topic a few years ago. For example, can you contact a witness by "friending" the person on Facebook given that there are rules regarding contact with represented and unrepresented persons? If you assume an identity when you friend the person, might that implicate rules regarding honesty? In addition, attorneys have been reprimanded for using social media to talk about their cases. In the prosecution following the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, one of Assistant District Attorneys assigned to the case was asked to leave after he posted thinly veiled racist, homophobic comments on Facebook.
You have a forthcoming article in the Boston College Law Review. What is its focus?
My co-author [Professor Bruce A. Green of Fordham Law School] and I did a comprehensive review of the law governing prosecutor conflicts of interest. Guidance on this issue comes from everywhere you might imagine—the courts, legislatures, and bar associations. Prosecutors' conflicts are unique because they have to act with disinterest. Acting with disinterest means being free of personal beliefs and motivations that make it hard for the prosecutor to serve the public interest. We propose changes within a prosecutor's office to make prosecutors more aware of the process of decision-making, so they can develop an ongoing transparency about how conflict-of-interest decisions are made. Many people who write about this issue argue for more regulation. But we're arguing that prosecutorial discretion, not regulation, can really improve things. People shy away from very difficult ethical decisions at work—they're hard and upsetting. Yet prosecutor discretion is an important part of our system. As long as we have that piece, we need to attend to it. The more you add regulations, the less prosecutors will think independently about these questions.
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*Pre-registration for minicamp is now closed. Walk-up registration is still available on Friday, March 23 from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. at the museum's membership office. Please note walk-up registrations will incur a $25 walk-up fee.
No school? No problem! Our dynamic Mini-Camps are the perfect action-packed solution to a Teacher Workday. Kids will spend the day exploring the museum's interactive exhibitions, conducting science experiments and making new friends in the beautiful bayside setting of Museum Park.
- Grades: K – 5th (children must be at least 5 years of age and able to handle all aspects of using the bathroom alone to participate)
- Cost: $42.50 (Members) / $50.00 (Non-Members) per child, per day
- Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Before Care: 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. (Additional $5.00 per child, per day)
- After Care: 3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Additional $5.00 per child, per day)
- Two snacks included each day
- Lunch may be purchased for an additional $6.00
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Our Feathered Friends
Friday, March 23, 2018 (online registration closes Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 12:30 p.m.)
This mini-camp is for the birds—literally. Soar to new heights with a day-long study of our many-feathered friends. Meet some of the birds from our own backyard, then learn about adaptions and what makes birds so unique from feet to beak.